September 14th, 1979

Born on September 14th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on September 14th, 1979?

September 14th, 1979

Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Afghanistan

September 14th, 1979

Afghan president Nur Muhammad Taraki (pictured) was overthrown and later killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who succeeded him.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Muhammad_Taraki

What else happened on September 14th?

September 14th, 2019

Drone attacks on major processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais forced Saudi Arabia to cut more than half of its oil production.

September 14th, 2015

Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1905.

September 14th, 2007

Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, sparking a bank run—the United Kingdom's first in 150 years.

September 14th, 2003

President Kumba Ialá of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup.

September 14th, 1992

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be unconstitutional.

September 14th, 1989

Typhoon Sarah dissipated after causing extensive damage along an erratic path across the Western Pacific, killing 71 in Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Gotō Islands.

September 14th, 1960

At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to help coordinate their petroleum policies and influence global oil prices.

September 14th, 1943

World War II: Nazi forces began a mass extermination campaign against the civilian residents of around 20 villages on the Greek island of Crete, eventually killing more than 500 men.

September 14th, 1940

Hungarian forces massacred at least 150 ethnic Romanians in Ip, Transylvania, following rumors that Romanians were responsible for the deaths of two soldiers.

September 14th, 1914

HMAS AE1 (pictured), the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea; its wreck was not found until 2017.

September 14th, 1901

Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days after William McKinley was fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York.

September 14th, 1863

American Civil War: The Little Rock campaign ended with the Union Army capturing Little Rock, Arkansas.

September 14th, 1752

Under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping 11 days of the month.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on September 14th

Born on September 14th, 1979

44

Ivica Olić

Croatian football player and manager

*September 14th, 1979, Davor

44

Antonio Silva

Brazilian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter

*September 14th, 1979, Brasília

44

Ricardo Pereira

Portuguese actor and model

*September 14th, 1979, Lisbon

44

Richard Mascarañas

Uruguayan bicycle racer

*September 14th, 1979, Tacuarembó

44

Chris John

Indonesian boxer

*September 14th, 1979, Jakarta

44

Jordi Berenguer

Spanish cyclist

*September 14th, 1979, Alginet

44

Stefan Stam

Dutch footballer

*September 14th, 1979, Amersfoort

44

Matías Oviedo

Chilean actor and musician

*September 14th, 1979, Santiago

27

Jesse Marunde

American strength athlete

*September 14th, 1979, Alaska †July 25th, 2007, Washington

44

Hani Furstenberg

Israeli actress and singer

*September 14th, 1979, Israel

Same Day
Who's birthday is on September 14th?

37

Lloyd Russell-Moyle

British politician (born 1986)

*September 14th, 1986, Brighton

34

Marcus Ellis

English badminton player

*September 14th, 1989, Huddersfield

27

Amy Winehouse

English singer and songwriter (1983–2011)

*September 14th, 1983, Southgate †July 23rd, 2011, London Borough of Camden

37

Sargis Martirosjan

Austrian weightlifter

*September 14th, 1986, Vagharshapat

58

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

43

Martha Howe-Douglas

British actress

*September 14th, 1980, Birmingham

50

Andrew Lincoln

British actor

*September 14th, 1973, London

34

Pana Hema-Taylor

New Zealand actor

*September 14th, 1989, Auckland

52

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

American actor and film director

*September 14th, 1971, Rye

45

Ron DeSantis

Governor of Florida since 2019

*September 14th, 1978, Jacksonville

45

Silvia Navarro

Mexican actress

*September 14th, 1978, Irapuato

35

Martin Fourcade

French biathlete

*September 14th, 1988, Céret

71

Heinz Heinen

German-Belgian historian (1941-2013)

*September 14th, 1941, Sankt Vith †June 21st, 2013, Trier

42

Miyavi

Japanese guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor

*September 14th, 1981, Osaka

53

Ben Garant

American screenwriter

*September 14th, 1970, Cookeville

66

François Asselineau

French politician and official

*September 14th, 1957, Paris

45

Carmen Kass

Estonian model and actress

*September 14th, 1978, Tallinn

53

Francesco Casagrande

Italian cyclist

*September 14th, 1970, Florence

76

Sam Neill

New Zealand actor

*September 14th, 1947, Omagh

34

Jimmy Butler

American basketball player

*September 14th, 1989, Houston

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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